Example sentences of "[noun sg] have just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digital Equipment Corp has just named company veteran John O'Keefe , formerly vice-president , channels marketing , to the post of vice-president , Unix marketing , reporting to vice-president , Bill Demmer . |
| 2 | Stratus Computer Inc is moving its fault-tolerant Unix and VOS machines to the Hewlett-Packard Co Precision Architecture RISC from the Intel Corp 80860 , but IBM Corp has just renewed its OEM agreement with Stratus , which dates back to 1985 . |
| 3 | No-one would believe they had a recession on in Japan when they have time and resources to devote to dreaming up and creating things like this : Toshiba Corp has just launched a line of word processors with sound effects — ‘ to introduce an element of fun in the workplace ’ according to Reuter — they bark when you write ‘ dog ’ , moo when you write ‘ cow ’ and make the sound of pouring when you write ‘ beer ’ , and if you recall a text file word-by-word at reading speed , they repeat these and 26 other pre-programmed noises , from sleigh bells to sirens , as the words come up — and it no doubt laughs like a drain when your boss sends it an electronic message telling you you 're fired for being a disruptive influence . |
| 4 | The 35-year-old has just had minor surgery to remove a floating piece of bone from his elbow and he intends to fly out of the country to represent Zimbabwe in an African Nations Cup tie next weekend . |
| 5 | This mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 6 | The second largest mare has just given birth to a foal . |
| 7 | But the launch of Intel 's new 33MHz SX processor has just put another nail in the 386 coffin . |
| 8 | This driver has just returned from France , after managing to get through the blockade . |
| 9 | The Fuel Contracts Department at Peel Park has just issued a comprehensive Departmental Procedures Manual , covering everything from the booking-in of mail to the department to the ordering of new AGR fuel for Hunterston and Torness . |
| 10 | Our Archbishop has just announced his retirement , and whoever is chosen to succeed him will lead us into the Decade of Evangelism . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope I 've misunderstood , but it seems to me that Ace 's romantic attachment has just lost us our last chance to prevent this , ’ she waved her arms in a circle , ‘ this monstrosity from wiping out an entire planetary system and its inhabitants . |
| 12 | BP Oil UK 's lubricants and special products division has just started to blend lubes to be sold in Britain under the Unipart label , and the first batch was supplied in May . |
| 13 | That man with a beard has just had a breakdown in London 's Burning . |
| 14 | YOUR computer has just broken down . |
| 15 | — that British Aerospace has just won for 20 RJ70s that is especially designed for the United States market and fills a niche that no one else could have filled ? |
| 16 | A RESEARCH team at Glasgow University has just received a £1.5 million grant from the Science and Engineering Research Council to carry out a project to increase the capacity of fibre-optic cables , writes Eric McKenzie |
| 17 | Professor Jack Spence of Leicester university has just returned from a fact-finding tour of South Africa . |
| 18 | The Board has just made a visit to the North West Region of . |
| 19 | Whatever its merits , however , it will have to live in the shadow of W T Stearn , whose magisterial Stearn 's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners is already out in a revised edition ( Cassell , 1992 , £16.99 , 0 304 34149 5 ) , and whose Botanical Latin has just appeared in a 4th edition ( David & Charles , £25 0 7153 0052 0 ) . |
| 20 | . So our purpose here and I would echo er what Miss has just said , is essentially to take a view about migration . |
| 21 | Can I go back to what Miss has just said ? |
| 22 | Oh yes they made it Miss has just died erm then coming down there was the Post Office with old Pa and the , then the Miss , they used to keep the Post Office , then there was er well there was a gents outfitters and then there was a beautiful shop I always used to think , it was called , another , but it was confectioners , but it was all most delightful old oldy-worldy sort of shop and my mother often used to go in there then you 'd |
| 23 | Enya has just released her Shepherd 's Moon album , Clannad are busy writing a new album of th |
| 24 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 25 | One of the few journalists who was always sceptical of the Al Fayeds ' case has just joined the staff of The Economist . |
| 26 | A delegation of lawyers from the British Romanian Law Association has just returned from a successful trip to Romania , having given seminars in two Romanian cities and met with representatives of the Romanian Bar Association . |
| 27 | The British Cichlid Association has just published two new colour information pamphlets on groups of Cichlids — Mbuna , and South American Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 28 | This horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 29 | The second largest horse has just given birth to a foal . |
| 30 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that , entirely contrary to what the Leader of the Opposition has just said , the settlement that he has won will be welcomed by the overwhelming majority of people in this country ? |